SDHC Cards

[Corey2192]

What is a cheap [under $50], fast [class 6] and large [16gb +] SDHC card?

[dezymond]

I haven't seen any class 6, 32GB SDHC. The cheapest on ebay i found was like $71. You could always try bidding for one....

[dreamcore]

What is a cheap [under $50], fast [class 6] and large [16gb +] SDHC card?

There are 16GB Class 6 at acceptable prices. That's what I'm looking for now. By reading the card reviews and mentions on the boards, Patriot and Transcend seem to be the better bets for reliability and actual speed among these cheaper cards, versus A-DATA and PQI which have either more complaints or fewer mentions of success for this type of card.

[maj371]

I am using this card with no problems on my mini 1035NR, I did format it with the mini when I got it instead of just using it as is!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820211245

[Ron]

I use a 4gb SDHC card from NewEgg for about 9 bucks. I formated it and made it bootable, then I copied my Operation system Recovery disk to the SDHC card along with the Application and Driver recovery and a complete backup of my MINI 1035NR.

[slnrd]

There much confusion in the marketplace over SD cards. I did research on the net, called HP about the i/o bus speed for the Mini 1030NR SD slot, downloaded HD Tach, mucked around a bit and came up with the following:

Avg. read speeds:
Internal Sandisk pata ssd 16gb drive: 35.2 MB/s
Transcend T3 Jetflash 8gb (mobile drive port): 24.9 MB/s
Sandisk Ultra II 2gb (class 4) card (sd slot): 10.1 MB/s
Sandisk Ultra II 8gb (15 MB/s rated - sd slot): 17.0 MB/s

The Transcend T3 Jetflash 8gb ($32) is my D: drive where My Documents, WAB and OE Identities reside (identities required manual hack of the Win XP registry entriy)

The Sandisk Ultra II 8gb ($15 on eBay) resides in the sd slot as the E: and is used for removable files like mp3, etc.

The way I see it is:

the $32 for the Transcend 8gb T3 mobile is reasonable price for the added performance gains that come with offloading My Documents, OE Identities and the WAB

the $15 for the Sandisk Ulra II 8gb in the sd slot may be 1/2 the speed of the internal pata ssd, but removable file capability and being able to upgrade to 20MB/s Extreme III sdhc and future sdxc cards will be easy and cost effective upgrades in the future.

At the end of the day, saving a few dollars by buying an 'off' brand sd card makes no sense at all - buy industry leader cards that have less capacity and higher speed performance. Remember that the 'class' 2/4/6 spec is ONLY a MINIMUM guaranteed performance spec and the Sandisk cards I've tested outperform the minimum by a lot.

[eelydnic]

Wow those Transcend 8gb T3 mobile sticks have really jumped in price. Probably due to demand
Just one month ago they were only $23.90!

[imforcanada]

i am very interested in putting in a transcend 8gb card, and plan on keeping it in there, i saw that you said you did this "identities required manual hack of the Win XP registry entriy"
can you explain how you did this becuase i would like to do this to save room from my 8gb ssd on my hp mini 1010nr
thanks
or is it possible to install my 2007 microsoft word on my transcend card and have it boot from that whenever i want to use word?

[thoraxe]

i am very interested in putting in a transcend 8gb card, and plan on keeping it in there, i saw that you said you did this "identities required manual hack of the Win XP registry entriy"
can you explain how you did this becuase i would like to do this to save room from my 8gb ssd on my hp mini 1010nr
thanks
or is it possible to install my 2007 microsoft word on my transcend card and have it boot from that whenever i want to use word?

I think what he meant was that he edited the Windows XP registry so that "My Documents" and other things lived on D:\ instead of C:\.

You can refer to Microsoft's documentation on that here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310147